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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 05:28:42 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

   On my gravestone, please just mention that I have read every single line of code for the #LispMachine

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 17:17:52 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Weekend Editor

     @weekend_editor What is funny is that those half million lines of code include so much.

     Today 500k lines is like ... your basic web app.

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     Weekend Editor (weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 17:17:53 JST Weekend Editor

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     @amszmidt

     I recall at the time estimating that Symbolics had a bit under half a million lines of code, maybe twice that if you include the "layered" products (Fortran, Pascal, C, Macsyma, Statice, Joshua, ...).

     Doesn't seem like so much nowadays, when codebases that size are everywhere. (And less well debugged.)